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Papers relating to the career of Brig John 'Joe' Starling, 1947-1992, including copy of memoir Soldier On! The Testament of a Tom , (Spellmount Ltd., 1992), detailing 45 years of Starling's military career; pamphlets and brochures advertising the Parachute Regiment and the Red Devils display team including The Parachute Regiment: Challenge! , c.1970; Train to be a Parachute Soldier , [1975]; Parachute Regiment and Officer Parachute Regiment , Office of Information, 1985; The Airborne Initiative: The 1990 Airborne Forces Golden Jubilee Appeal , 1989 and recruitment posters; recognition guides including Tips for Tankers: Defeating Soviet Armor , US Army Armor School, c 1955; Recognition Handbook: Foreign Weapons and Equipment (USSR) , MOD, 1964; Notes on the Soviet Ground Forces , MOD, 1972; Intelligence Aide-Memoire , Staff College, Camberley, 1976; Threat Recognition Guide , 1 (BR) Intelligence Training Directive, 1984; RAF: Aircraft, Missiles, Vehicles , Office of Information, 1985; Threat Recognition Guide , 1 (BR) Intelligence Training Directive, 1988; and flipbook showing Soviet weaponry and equipment.

Publications including Field Engineering and Mine Warfare, Pamphlet No. 4: Mines - Individual Mechanisms , War Office, 1961; NATO: Facts and Figures , NATO Information Service, 1971; Ranger Handbook , United States Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia, May 1972; Northern Ireland: What is it like for soldiers? , HMSO, 1974; Back Pocket Briefs: Royal Navy, Directorate of Naval Staff Duties , MOD, c.1988.

Lecture notes, handouts, pictures, maps and teaching aids on topics including lessons learned at Fibua Tewt, Aden, May-June 1967; battle handling exercises: tank stalk and tank ambush; explosive excavation of trenches; tactical exercises, Joint Services Free Fall Trials Team, May 1971, and the construction of petrol bombs to effectively attack tanks. Photographs including Starling in a rubber estate, evening meal in the jungle, Bukit Prang Base, river crossing, a patrol resting, armoured 3 ton truck, the corpses of Tamil terrorists killed in ambush, captured weapons displayed by an Iban tracker, Malay policemen and Starling, Malaya, 1949; group photographs including Champion and Waterloo Company; Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, July 1947; Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Hare and Hounds; Waterloo Company, July 1948; No 2 Platoon, East Anglian Regiment Training Brigade; Officers, School of Infantry (Platoon Weapons Wing), Hythe, May 1950; School of Infantry Tactical Wing Platoon Commanders Course, August 1950 and the Parachute Regiment Regimental Sergeants Major Convention, March 1973. Also Yemeni flag with National Liberation Front slogan in Arabic, Aden, 1963.

Staple Diet 2 (Durham, 1990): edited by Ric Caddel of Pig Press: 'Journeys' by Jane Augustine, 1985;

Issue 3: 'Spelling' by John Cayley, 1985;

Issue 4: 'In a blue car' by Robert Christian, not dated;

Issue 10: 'Burning in colours' by Andrew Lawson, 1986;

Issue 11: poems by Paige Mitchell, 1986, with covering note from Mitchell, 2 copies;

Issue 12: 'Noughts & crosses' by Bronwyn Cayley, 1986;

Prior by Maurice Scully, issued as 'Dietary Supplement' to Staple Diet, Jun 1990; (Note: for Staple Diet 1, Assorted stories, by Lee Harwood, see MOTTRAM 5 / Harwood)

Stanley O Gillett: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Stanley H Baker: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Stanley Cooke-Smith: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Papers, 1940-1942, including correspondence, reports and memoranda relating to gunnery techniques and tactics, when Stanford commanded Support Group, 8 Armoured Div, Middle East, 1941-1942. Typescript summary of points arising from Exercise DRAGON, Jan 1941, with typescript precis of lecture 'Tactical handling of German and Italian armoured formations'; typescript memoranda by Maj Gen Charles Wake Norman on armoured tactics, Apr 1941; typescript memorandum on point of aim for the 2 pounder anti-tank gun, [1941]; typescript memorandum relating to the organisation of self propelled artillery, Royal Horse Artillery, Jan 1942; typescript papers on the role of an air observation post in an armoured division, with typescript precis of lecture entitled 'The air observation post', 1942. Correspondence with Lt Col Rawdon Hoare, Commanding Officer, 5 Regt, Royal Horse Artillery, 1940-1942, on anti-tank exercises; deployment of Royal Horse Artillery when supporting armoured troops and regimental targets.

Stanford Research Institute paper: 'Soviet military capabilities and intentions in Europe', by Thomas W Wolfe.

Stanford Research Institute paper: 'Soviet military capabilities and intentions in Europe' by Thomas W Wolfe, includes Soviet and Warsaw Pact capabilities against NATO.

House Governor's Office file. Standing routine instructions for administrative staff, including procedural instructions for the Committee Clerk regarding the Board of Governors, Finance and General Purposes Committee, King's College Hospital House Committee, Belgrave Hospital House Committee, Research Committees, Medical and Dental Committees and Nursing Committee.

Volume of material relating to Guy's Hospital Dental School standing orders for dental staff and pupils, including printed and typescript copies of orders for the Director of the Departments of Conservative Dental Surgery, Dental Surgeons, Sep 1904, Dental Anaesthetists, Oct 1914, Dental radiologist, Feb 1923, dental house surgeons, Dec 1936; Mechanical assistants in the dental laboratory, Sep1904; pasted in copy of printed booklet Dental Department regulations and standing orders, Jan 1926; manuscript memoranda relating to the revision of the orders; Reports of the dental prosthetic committee for the meeting of the Dental council, 25 Apr 1935. 1 volume

Regimental standing orders, Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier Force'. 1 vol.

Guy's Hospital Dental Department standing orders for the Mechanical Assistant, Apr 1899, and 1904.

Headquarters Tank Corps. Standing orders for the care and inspection of tanks and tank equipment. 3 pp

Headquarters Tank Corps. G162/9 Tank Corps standing orders for operations. SECRET. 18 pp

Tank Corps standing orders for operations. SECRET. 21 pp

Folder containing standing orders of the Advanced General Headquarters, First Echelon, detailing the duties of each officer and giving the ideal layout of an office. 12pp.

Typescript Standing Orders for 2nd Bde Miranzani Field Force, issued by Capt W du Gray. 4pp.

Standing Orders and References to Committees, issued by the Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of London, including rules of committees (W W Sprague and Co Ltd, London, 1934). 1 booklet

Stand 8/2 (Jesmond, 1966): includes article on Basil Bunting's poetry by R. S. Wood, poems by Barry MacSweeney, Tom Pickard, and review of Ed Dorn Geography (Fulcrum Press, London, 1965) by Robert Creeley;

Issue 13/4, 1972: includes prose by Tom Pickard, and articles on Robert Creeley and Gary Snyder, inscribed to Mottram by Pickard